Detroit’s youth poets perform original work, telling the audience “Breakthrough bankruptcy to the other side.”
“Oh Media … Catch our good side…Our Eastside…Our Westside…Good Side”
Sharing a stage with Michigan’s governor, Detroit’s mayor, the city’s bankruptcy judge and journalists, six teen poets from Cody-Detroit Institute of Technology College Prep High School performed an original poem about bankruptcy at Wayne State University tonight.
Sandra Svoboda
The students represented the InsideOut Literary Arts Project, a nonprofit that works with teen writers throughout the city and in the suburbs.The students learned about the city’s bankruptcy case at workshops presented by WDET as part of the station’s work with the Detroit Journalism Cooperative.
The result? A poem about Detroit performed at the “Detroit Bankruptcy: One Year Later” event by the poets: Asia Harris, Alisha Reeves, Justin Keller Rhodes, Jemilla Siggers, DaVaughn Smith and Savannah Zellous. They worked with InsideOut Writer In Residence Mahogany Jones.
Here is their poem, with links to Detroit Journalism Cooperative work illustrating their verse:
